{"id":2415,"date":"2016-12-13T05:25:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T05:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2016-12-13T05:25:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T05:25:01","slug":"over-saturns-turbulent-north-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=2415","title":{"rendered":"Over Saturns Turbulent North Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1612\/NorthSaturn_Cassini_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>The Cassini spacecraft&#8217;s Grand Finale at Saturn has begun. The Grand Finale will allow Cassini to explore Saturn and some of Saturn&#8217;s moons and rings in unprecedented detail. The first phase started two weeks ago when a close flyby of Titan changed Cassini&#8217;s orbit into one that passes near Saturn&#8217;s poles and just outside of Saturn&#8217;s outermost F-ring. Featured here is an image taken during the first of Cassini&#8217;s 20 week-long F-ring orbits around Saturn. Visible are the central polar vortex on the upper left, a hexagonal cloud boundary through the image center, and numerous light-colored turbulent storm systems. In 2017 April, Cassini will again use the gravity of Titan to begin a new series of 22 Proximal orbits &#8212; trajectories that will take Cassini inside of Saturn&#8217;s rings for the first time. Cassini&#8217;s new science adventure is scheduled to end on 2017 September 17, though, when the robotic spacecraft will be directed into a dramatic mission-ending dive into Saturn&#8217;s atmosphere. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2hlvVLX\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cassini spacecraft&#8217;s Grand Finale at Saturn has begun. The Grand Finale will allow Cassini to explore Saturn and some of Saturn&#8217;s moons and rings in unprecedented detail. The first <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=2415\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}